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Chronology; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1. The power and theweakness of women in Anglo-Norman romance Judith Weiss; 2. Women as lovers inearly English romance Flora Alexander; 3. Mothers in Middle English romanceJennifer Fellows; 4. 'Clerc u lai, muine u dame': women and Anglo-Normanhagiography in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Jocelyn Wogan-Browne; 5.Women in no-man's land: English recluses and the development of vernacularliterature in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Bella Millett; 6. 'Womentalking about the things of God': a late medieval subculture Felicity Riddy;7. '... Alle the bokes that I haue of latyn, englisch, and frensch': laywomenand their books in late medieval England Carol M. Meale; 8. Women authors andwomen's literacy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England Julia Boffey;9. Women and their poetry in medieval Wales Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan.